Part 1 - What is site specific?

"Site Specific Theatre is any type of theatricle production designed to be performed at a unique, specially adapted location other than a standard theatre." 

This is an offical definintion found online. We have been given a task to devise and create a short scene for a sight specific peice. This ultimately will be used for a production that will be performed by ourselves along side some other extra actors on halloween as a fright night type effect. 

I have been to see a site specific performance before however our brief is no where near the same as the one I had been to watch was more aimed towards a family peice with some jokes that only adults would understand, like most childrens films, programmes and plays. Though I can get an idea of how much energy and consistancy is needed to bring the theatre peice to life. It doesn't have to be life like to make it real either, it can have elements of fictional content as long as the acting and the presentation of the site adapted can give the impression of a life like scenario. 

At the start of our final year of the performing arts course us as 2nd years devised a site specific peice that we would have to perfom to the 1st years. We, as a group, had to think of what we wanted the play to be about. A few ideas were thrown about and it came down to it being about the goings on/ the things you wouldn't obviously see in a club setting. Our location was very site adaptive and we made in that our hallway was the partying people and within each room had the actors performing an unnerving peice very intimatly with the audience as each room was very small. The small size of our location is what worked the best, we didn't want our audience to be comfortable as all the goings on were not a normal predicament to be in, and as the location was not too big it worked in our favour to make the audeince not really want to stay there but to relate to the characters closely and feel like they would know us personally.

Performing this first play and getting feedback has definitely helped with the ideas that we have came up with for this next play. As the genre has the same creepy and unnerving element that our full devised peice had.